Legal Counsel

The role

You will handle ordinary-course corporate work, such as commercial contract reviews, board consents and equity grants. You will also join the legal team's reactive rotation on investor consents, side letters, portfolio-company issues, secondary transactions and regulatory questions.

What you will do

• Own procurement and commercial contract reviews, including data rights, retention and use of data to train AI models.
• Assess fact-specific fund and investment matters, including fee disputes, carry transfers, distribution or secondary issues, side letters and non-standard fund operation issues, and develop a clear po
• Research and advise on questions under the Securities Act, Investment Company Act, Investment Advisers Act and related rules.
• Use AI-assisted research and drafting workflows, reviewing and verifying output rather than relying on it unchecked.
• Identify recurring patterns in corporate and reactive legal work and turn them into reusable guidance, templates and AI-assisted workflows.
• Support bespoke fund structures and strategic customer arrangements, and determine whether requested terms fit within AngelList's legal and operational framework.
• Work closely with Product, Engineering, Fund Operations, Finance, Tax, Compliance and Customer Success.

Required qualifications

• Corporate transactional capability, including ownership of commercial contract reviews and ordinary-course corporate matters.
• Comfort using AI tools, checking their output, and distinguishing work that can be automated from decisions that require a lawyer.
• Comfort with ambiguity and reactive work, including incomplete facts, time-sensitive issues and no existing playbook.
• A practical, cross-functional approach to balancing legal risk and business realities.
• Fund and regulatory fluency, or the ability to develop it quickly, including fund governing documents, investor arrangements, and securities and investment-management concepts.
• An appetite for hands-on execution of recurring corporate work and a steady flow of time-sensitive legal matters.

Benefits

• Benefits that support life both in and outside of work (details on the company's benefits page).
• Equity package.
• Funders & Founders program.

Before you apply

• Candidates who do not meet every requirement are still encouraged to apply.

About the company

AngelList is building the financial system for private markets, including exchanges, custodians, brokers and ways for ordinary people to invest. The company has over $200B in assets and has funded 30,000+ startups on its platform.